Introducing Context Intelligence
Many hopes and dreams are being fueled by the wonders and hype of AI systems. Yet those of us that have been through these technology-hype cycles before recognize the inevitable. AI technologies will help in…
PDR – 2024 Year in Review
Dear clients, partners, and friends, As we reach the end of 2024, it is once again a good opportunity to reflect on our achievements and learning over the past year, and to provide our perspective…
Putting Context into Context Engineering
Context engineering is one of the latest buzzwords across the AI community. The basic idea is to both improve the quality and manage the cost of a conversation with an LLM AI by augmenting the…
Egeria Advisor: Literate Governance and the Collaborative Canvas
In my last post, Egeria Advisor: The Live Gateway and the Feedback Loop, we explored how the Egeria Advisor transitioned from a passive reference guide into an active operational tool by integrating the Model Context…
Egeria Advisor: The Live Gateway and the Feedback Loop
In my last post, I detailed how we addressed the challenge of non-determinism by moving to a coordinated multi-agent architecture and introducing explicit Intent and Perspective controls into the front-end Web UI. By wrapping our…
Egeria Advisor: Ingestion Tuning and the Multi-Agent Shift
In my last post, The Egeria Advisor: Casting Out Egeria Expert – Lessons Learned, I shared how we expanded the data scope of the Egeria Advisor to include core code repositories like egeria-python, egeria (Java), and egeria-workspaces. This expansion…
The Egeria Advisor: Casting Out Egeria Expert – Lessons Learned
In my last post, The Egeria Advisor: Sharing the Journey, I introduced the foundational vision behind the Egeria Advisor—injecting “Context Intelligence” into AI applications by leveraging organizational and situational context to provide more useful results. But…
The Egeria Advisor – Sharing the Journey
Dan Wolfson We have to build systems that people want to use, that provide value to them individually, that makes their work life better – not just view humans as knowledge sources to train the…
Responsibilities and activities supporting data readiness for AI projects
In my first post on Data Readiness, I introduced the notion of a Data Readiness activity to provide the AI development team with the political power to make the resources (typically data and subject matter…
Building the Data Lens for AI
A Data Lens is a specification of the data needed to support an AI development project. It reflects the scope of the business problem/opportunity laid out by the sponsors, but has sufficient detail to act…
Data and AI-led business transformation
An AI project often starts in a back room, as a series of experiments. Its operation at that time can be low key and informal. At the other end of the spectrum, an AI project…
Data Preparation in the AI Journey (Part 2)
In my previous post, I outlined five key pillars: Scope, Compliance, Trustworthiness, Understandability, and Cost. While these pillars provide a design framework, moving an AI application from an interesting experiment to a production-grade tool is not a…